From 4044ba58dd15cb01797c4fd034f39ef4a75f7cc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 08:31:11 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] md: don't retry recovery of raid1 that fails due to error on source drive. If a raid1 has only one working drive and it has a sector which gives an error on read, then an attempt to recover onto a spare will fail, but as the single remaining drive is not removed from the array, the recovery will be immediately re-attempted, resulting in an infinite recovery loop. So detect this situation and don't retry recovery once an error on the lone remaining drive is detected. Allow recovery to be retried once every time a spare is added in case the problem wasn't actually a media error. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown --- drivers/md/md.c | 5 ++++- drivers/md/raid1.c | 8 ++++++-- include/linux/raid/md_k.h | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index f5cbb9d2371a..41e2509bf896 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -1500,6 +1500,9 @@ static int bind_rdev_to_array(mdk_rdev_t * rdev, mddev_t * mddev) list_add_rcu(&rdev->same_set, &mddev->disks); bd_claim_by_disk(rdev->bdev, rdev->bdev->bd_holder, mddev->gendisk); + + /* May as well allow recovery to be retried once */ + mddev->recovery_disabled = 0; return 0; fail: @@ -6175,7 +6178,7 @@ static int remove_and_add_spares(mddev_t *mddev) } } - if (mddev->degraded && ! mddev->ro) { + if (mddev->degraded && ! mddev->ro && !mddev->recovery_disabled) { list_for_each_entry(rdev, &mddev->disks, same_set) { if (rdev->raid_disk >= 0 && !test_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags) && diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c index c165b1eed8bb..7b4f5f7155d8 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid1.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c @@ -1016,12 +1016,16 @@ static void error(mddev_t *mddev, mdk_rdev_t *rdev) * else mark the drive as failed */ if (test_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags) - && (conf->raid_disks - mddev->degraded) == 1) + && (conf->raid_disks - mddev->degraded) == 1) { /* * Don't fail the drive, act as though we were just a - * normal single drive + * normal single drive. + * However don't try a recovery from this drive as + * it is very likely to fail. */ + mddev->recovery_disabled = 1; return; + } if (test_and_clear_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags)) { unsigned long flags; spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags); diff --git a/include/linux/raid/md_k.h b/include/linux/raid/md_k.h index dac4217194b8..9743e4dbc918 100644 --- a/include/linux/raid/md_k.h +++ b/include/linux/raid/md_k.h @@ -218,6 +218,9 @@ struct mddev_s #define MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN 9 unsigned long recovery; + int recovery_disabled; /* if we detect that recovery + * will always fail, set this + * so we don't loop trying */ int in_sync; /* know to not need resync */ struct mutex reconfig_mutex;